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Couldn't the government ban the company from making the service available? The app depends on the service.
by capote 10y ago
Couldn't the government ban the company from making the service available? The app depends on the service.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoThe company isn't in their jurisdiction. At most, they could try to block it, like Brazil did.
- capote 10y agoOh! I didn't realize it worked that way. So they can tell Apple to take something off their App Store because Apple has presence in their country? Would app stores be immune if their company doesn't have a presence in a country?
- ultramancool 10y agoApp stores may not be legally required to take it down as they're outside the jurisdiction... but a threat to block the app store entirely in the country is probably enough to get them to budge.
- capote 10y agoBlocking an entire app store is so consumer-unfriendly--is there a chance of that happening in a reasonable country?
- dingo_bat 10y agoNot happening in India. To be realistic, even such a thing as a Whatsapp "ban" isn't going to happen/work. It will be at most similar to how porn is "banned". My ISP returns DNS not resolved for most porn websites if you use their resolver, but they pushed an update to the router changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8. The final result is most people haven't even realized that porn websites are banned.
- hashhar 10y agoPorn is effectively not banned because even the NIC DNS servers (the one's one whose infrastructure the government runs on) resolve them really fine for me.